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We are happy to finally report that we have completed a major milestone in our march toward breaking the Church of Scientology’s monopoly over the religion of Scientology! Legal Research Project Done Our team of legal experts completed an exhaustive research project we had commissioned for the purpose of determining the best way to proceed with the First Independent Church of Scientology and its objective to practice

Been awhile since our last post, readers remind us. We would like to post more often, but most of our news on the legal front is highly technical in addition to being strategic and therefore not suitable for broad public issue. We will throw out some tidbits now and try to do better in the future. Technical Standards Committee The Technical Standards Committee is formed and functioning. We are not releasing names at

On November 12, 2015, an application for trademark for the name First Independent Church of Scientology was filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On or about the same date, the name was reserved by the California Secretary of State for use within sixty (60) days as a nonprofit religious corporation, and when the 60-day period expired, the name was reserved for a second 60-day period. Both filings we

In our most recently article we defined black propaganda and quoted LRH for the two reasons people engage in it. The article was timely. In the past 24 hours, reports have flooded into Religious Liberty League about so-called interrogatories asking insinuating questions about various named field auditors. For instance, one question is: “Are you aware of any attempt by _______ (field auditor) to make less of L

Why can’t the major media and critics of Scientology see the difference between a religious philosophy and the abuses of an institution acting in the name of the religion? They can, and do, for other religions. Seems simple to do so. A high IQ is not required. Example: Islam. A peaceful religion. It ushered in great advances in mathematics and science. Its members boast of its benefits. Yet bad things have been d

The best way to practice Scientology is to do so openly… as a religion. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution recognizes the inalienable right to freely practice one’s religion and prohibits the government from establishing (or favoring) one religion over another. The scriptures for the Scientology religion are the writings and lectures of L. Ron Hubbard on the subject. Because Scientology by de

On November 23, 2015, a Moscow court ordered the dissolution of that city’s Church of Scientology on the grounds that it did not qualify as a religious organization due to a US trademark of the word Scientology. For a typical news story, Scientology Banned in Russia. A number of people sent us links to stories like this and asked us to comment on them. They were particularly interested in the ramifications of the rul